The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-10-19
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Colonel and Mrs L. d. NJ. Sweat have re-
turned from Europe
Mr.. Ernest c. Smith, lately clerk at the
United States Hotel, has accepted similar
position at the Falmouth.
Ex-United States Marshal Hon. George d
Bisbee was in town yesterday. He is in ex-
cellent health.
Bishop d. NJ. Bradley of New Hampshire,
started from Rome Mondaylon his homeward
journey
Mr. Mackin, who has been clerk at the
Preble House the past summer, has accepted
position in Lawrence hotel
ii. Elmer Small, formerly of Machiasport,
has recently entered the Sophomore
class at Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas.
Miss Belle Bartlett of this city. sang the
10th of last month at a concert given the
students of North Bridgton Academy.
Miss Eta G. Sterling, the well known So
prano of this city, has been engaged as So
loist in the Park Concert Company of Bos-
ton; also in the Rossini Company.
Rev. William II. Mcbride, graduate of
Bangor Seminary in 1886, was ordained and
installed at Brownville, as pastor of the
Congregational church yesterday.
Hon. G. A. Boutelle has accepted an invi-
tation to be the guest of the Portland Club
at supper to be given Monday evening Oc-
tober oath.
Hon. Fred E. Richards and Mrs. Richards
have arrived in the city from Camden and
taken rooms for the winter at the Falmouth.
Mr.. Richards is now engaged in examining
the Savings Banks in the city.
Governor Bodwell has appointed l. c. Lib
by of Burnham, and Martin l.. Reynolds of
Sidney, as delegates to the convention of the
Consolidated Cattle Growers Association of
the United States, to be held in Kansas City,
Mo-, on Monday and Tuesday, October 31st,
and November LIST.
Mr.. Horatio Clark, with Deering, Milliken
& Co., will have the sympathy of our citi-
zens in the loss of his youngest son, Harold
W., bright boy of four years and four
months of age, who, aftel an attack of ty-
phoid fever, had the disease eliminate in
brain trouble from which he died yesterday.
In private letter to Congressman Bou-
telle prominent Grand Army comrade and
influential business man of Michigan says
Your people did very wise thing in send
ing that grand old man, Hannibal Hamlin,
to ST. Louis. He had more influence than
any man in the encampment unless it was
General Fairchild.v
Rev. E. X. Drew of West Hampden, has
resigned his charge after eleven years of
constant labor. During this time the church
has grown from ten members TO strong
church numbering about seventy-five, and a
Sunday school of more than one hundred
members. 1t had no library of any account,
and now has one of the finest in the county.
Mr.. Drew enters upon his new field at Hodg-
don, Cary and Amity, the first of November.
The Rev. Sullivan III. Weston, d. D., as
sistant minister of Trinity Parish, officiating
at st. Johns Chapel, New York, who died
on Friday, October 14th, was born October
9TH, 1916, in Bristol, Me. He was graduated
from the Wesleyan University in Middle
town, Conn.,, in 1912, and subsequently pur-
sued a private theological course. He was
ordained Deacon in Trinity church, New
York, in 1S47. In 1858 he was elected Bish-
Op Of Texas, but he declined. He served
through two campaigns in the early part of
the War of the Rebellion as chaplain of the
Seventh Regiment, National Guard.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean has this pleas
ant notice Of the daughter of an Oxford
Bear who has become prosperous in the
West: without doubt, the most elaborate
and elegant in all its details of any wedding
ever celebrated in Milwaukee, was the we'd
ding of Miss Laura Appleton Chapman,
daughter of 7. A. Chapman. formerly of
Maine, to George Parkham Miller, junior
member of the law firm of Finehes, Lynde &
Miller, the oldest law firm in the United
States. The young couple will spend sever
al weeks in the East on their bridal trip.
Mr.. Chapman, the BRIDES father. has built
and presented her residence which is con-
sidered by architects to be, from an aesthet-
ic standpoint, as fine a structure as was ever
erected in the Northwest